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GENERAL INDEX. 



Nurseries, English provincial, information on, 

 solicited, 104 ; an account of the Bache Pool 

 nursery, near Chester, Messrs. F. and J. 

 Dickson's, 105 ; of Messrs. Conolly and Sons' 

 nursery, at Lancaster, 108 ; of Messrs. Skir- 

 ving and Co.'s Walton nursery, near Liver- 

 pool, 109 ; of Messrs. John Pope and Sons' 

 Handsworth nursery, near Birmingham, 110; 

 Messrs. Rednall and Bircham's Holton nur- 

 sery, near Halesworth, Suffolk, 251 ; Came- 

 ron's nursery, Uckfield, Sussex, 741 ; Carlisle 

 nursery, Messrs. William and Thomas Hutton, 

 741 ; Keswick nursery, Mr. Kerr, 742. 



Nurseries, Scottish provincial, of Messrs. Smith 

 and Sons, at Ayr, Monkwood, and Colroy, 

 113; of Messrs. W. Drummond and Sons, at 

 Stirling, 113; Mr. Goldie's, at Wrightfield, 

 near Ayr, 474. 



Nursery and gardening business, depressed state 

 of, more especially in Scotland, 134. 



Oak, on the pruning of the, 243 ; oak timber, 

 what are best means of preventing the dry rot 

 in ? 501. See Quercus. 



Ohio, the state of, remarks on the indigenous 

 flowers and fruits of, 374. 



Olive tree, Italian means of propagating it, 68. 



Onions, store, a mode of preventing their sprout, 

 ing or germinating during the winter, 55 ; on 

 the transplanting of onions, 180. 



Orange trees, their degree of hardihood in Italy, 

 492 ; oranges and lemons, as cultivated in 

 Italy, and at Naples, 269. 271. 



Orchideous epiphytes, on the propagation of, 

 88; Mr. Lindley's directions for cultivating, 

 318 ; his directions for the manner of collect- 

 ing and preserving on board a ship, 603. 



O'xalis rosea Jac. (floribunda Lindl.), a mode of 

 cultivating, 572 ; O. Dt'ppei noticed, 691. 



P&bnia MoHtan, a magnificent plant of, 473; 

 the double-flowered variety of P. officinalis 

 produces seeds, 243. 



Pain's Hill, near Cobham, Surrey, noticed, 361. 



Palms, Choco, noticed, 79. 



Palo de vaco, seeds of, 361. 



Paris, the condition of the markets of, in rela- 

 tion to gardening on Dec. 20th, 1831, 65. 



Parmentier's garden, near Brooklyn, North 

 America, described, 71. 



Pea, Bishop's early dwarf, its merits compared 

 in detail with the merits of the early frame, 

 Knight's dwarf marrow, and the Spanish 

 dwarf, 584; Mr. Knight's mode of obtaining 

 very early crops of green peas, 434 ; the white 

 flowered everlasting pea, queries and inform- 

 ation on, 610. 



Peach trees, Hayward's system of training, 

 484. 653 ; Seymour's system of training, 51 ; 

 a preventive of the curling up and dropping 

 off of the leaves of peach trees, 340; a mode 

 of destroying the A^phis on peach trees, 580; 

 the Myrobalan plum tree an eligible stock for 

 peach trees, 340 ; peach trees distinguishable 

 from nectarine trees, by a difference in their 

 two germens, 469. 



Pear, a description and outline figure of the 

 Petre pear in Carr's nursery, Philadelphia, 

 587 ; seedling kinds of pear raised by Mr. 

 Knight, 439 ; remarks on the relative value 

 for perry of the Barland and other kinds of 

 pear, 582 ; monstrous pears noticed, 697. 



Pear trees, a mode of training pear 'trees de- 

 scribed and figured, 539; pear trees trained 

 to a wall built to an angle of ten degrees to 

 the earth's surface, produced an abundance 

 ; of fine fruit, 183; a fungose disease on the 

 • leaves and fruit of the pear trees at Buscot 

 park gardens, 738. 



Pearl moss, Irish, 94. 



Pelargonium zonale var. Blticherz, a fine plant 

 of, noticed, 80 ; Mr. Weltje's collection of 

 pelargoniums, 473. 

 Pelargoniums, a method of cultivating them, 

 practised by Mr. Appleby, 161 ; another mode 

 practised by Mr. Robert Elliot, 162 ;. on pro- 

 longing the flowering season of pelargoniums 

 sn beds in the open air, 46. 



Pepper, black, a history of, 228. 



Perry, valuable information of the qualities and 

 manufacture of, 582. 



Phse6coma prohfera, on propagating, 160. 



Philadelphia, nursery gardens and state of hor- 

 ticulture at, 272. 



Philipsburg in Pennsylvania, North America, 

 its capacities as to soil and climate described, 

 73. 



Physiology, vegetable, questions'in, 652, 653. 



Pimlico palace and gardens noticed, 472. 



Pine-apple, Mr. Munro's enumeration of varie- 

 ties of, with hints on cultivating them, 177. 

 Mr. Smith's mode of cultivating pine-apple 

 plants at Cunnoquhie, 328 ; the mode and re- 

 sults of cultivating plants of the pine-apple 

 out of pots, 576 ; a means of destroying the 

 scale on plants of the pine apple, 149 ; pine- 

 apples are plentiful and cheap at New York, 

 360; for the reason, see p. 275 ; pineapples 

 as cultivated in the stoves of Italy, 494; in 

 the open ground of Italy, 493. 



Pine timber, while full of sap, will resist fire, 

 488 ; an account of the common Scotch and 

 Highland pines as found in Scotland, 10 ; 

 enquiries for farther information on them, 

 489 ; pine of very '.large size in the United 

 States, 154 ; Plnus Strbbus, the Weymouth 

 pine, its habits in Prussia, 447. 



Pinguiculas, Mallet on cultivating, 684. 



Pita de Guataca supplies* a fibre valuable for 

 cordage, &o.„ 240. 367 ; pita de Tolu, 242. 



Pits planned and constructed by Mr. Hay, for 

 the securing a steady and uniform bottom 

 heat, 330 ; pit described, and the steam appa- 

 ratus by which it is heated, as both used at 

 Cunnoquhie, by Mr. Smith, in the culture of 

 pine apple and melon plants, 328 ; the ad- 

 vantages of M'Phail's pits, 38. 



Plantations, thinning and pruning of, 373 ; 

 plantations made at Harbke, 445. 



Planting and laying out grounds, on, 300; 

 planting knolls in preference to hollows, 486 j 

 planting ministers to wealth, 239. 



Plants, new, or interesting old ones, noticed, 

 12. 224! 345. 454. 596. 721 ; plants which thrive 

 in the smoky atmosphere of the London 

 neighbourhood, 243; a plan for removing 

 a potted plant from one pot to another with- 

 out injury, or breaking the ball of earth, 43; 

 plants worth importing for cultivation in 

 Britain, 366 ; on the sap vessels or circulat- 

 ing system of plants, 142. 



Pleasure-grounds, defects in, and the means to 

 avoid these defects, 151. 677. 



Plum, a new variety of, raised by Mr. Knight, 

 433; a mode of preserving ripe plums, 339; 

 the Myrobalan plum tree, a fit stock for 

 plum tree, peach tree, and nectarine tree, 

 340. 



Polygala cordifblia, on propagating, 160. 



Polygala vulgaris of different colours, 93. 503. 



Poplar, Lombardy, facts in the history of, 92. 



Poppy, hybrid, between Papaver nudicaule, 

 and P. alplnum, 355. 



Posts or pales, a mode of -detecting the stealers 

 of, 42. 



Potato, a means of preventing the curl in, 180 ; 

 a method of obtaining very early crops of 

 new potatoes, 315 ; a mode of producing 

 young potatoes for the table during winter, 

 in the open air, 54; Mr. Knight's remarks 

 on the fitness and value of potatoes as food 

 for animals and man, and his description of 

 his method of speedily ascertaining the qua- 

 lities of seedling potatoes, 436 ; frozen pota- 

 toes not rendered eatable by being thawed in 

 the dark as apples are, 356 ; a " cooking 

 alembic" for cooking potatoes and other 

 vegetables, 470; a mode of obtaining two 

 crops of the ash-leaved kidney, in one year, 

 off the same ground, 686 ; potato, sweet, see 

 Ipomoe v a Batatas. 

 Press for crushing fruit, 544. 

 Primrose Hill botanic garden, 594. 

 Prisons and gardens to them, 98. 



